Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2002. Vol. 8. Eger Journal of American Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 28)

Studies - Judit Molnár: The Spatio-Temporal Dimension of Diasporic Discourse from the Carrebian on the Canadian Literary Scene

disappointed by this crowd. They become louder and louder drinking full of excitement to go home yet denying it. "I can't eat my bread white any more" "I would miss the winter if I ever go back." "Life is much better here, yes." "Alberta better, it don't have a set of black people. That is why I like it there." It was a sign of prosperity to lose the taste for home-made bread and to feel like fainting in the heat. They overtake the plane, "Canadian anonymity was giving way to Trinidadian familiarity." (141) Their double-mindedness creates a destructive mentality and also a precarious social behaviour: "They felt that they owned the air space, the skies going south. Coming north maybe, the Canadians could tell them what to do, but not going home. They blared the music even louder and danced in the aisles." (141) (emphasis added) Ayo offers multiple cultural perspectives without being biased in any direction. She is convinced about having to help her own people: "She was determined to end the ambiguity. What had said for years. When the revolution comes, I'm going to be there." (145) Brand applies different fictive strategies in the multi-layered stories, and yet they have a homogeneous rhetorical style in a fairly clear political context. Despite the difference in the narrative choice of Clarke's and that of Brand's we can only agree with Lefebvre, who says, "Every language is located in space. Every discourse says something about a space. Distinction must be drawn between discourse in space, discourse about space and the discourse of space" (132). On the basis of the text analysis of Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack and Sans Souci different ways of space indications have been demonstrated. It has been shown that colonial space has its idiosyncratic nature hand in hand with its literary representation. 216